CMT.com Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

CMT.com is celebrating its 20-year anniversary on Friday (April 14), but a lot of people didn’t understand what was going on with the new technology – specifically an innovation known as the Internet — when the website launched on April 14, 1997.

“People thought we were crazy when we launched,” according to CMT Broadcast and post production operations vice president Martin Clayton, who supervised the website’s creation. “No one at that time understood the power of the Internet.”

CMT.com began as Country.com, one of the first major music websites among all genres, and was rebranded as CMT.com in 2001,